The Disability Studies Reader, Second Edition

The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective. Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell. Front cover 1 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 10 Preface to the Second Edition 14 Introduction 16 Part I: Histroical Perspectives 20 Chapter 1. Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century 22 Chapter 2. Deaf and Dumb in Ancient Greece1 36 Chapter 3. "A Silent Exile on This Earth": The Metaphorical Construction of Deafness in the Nineteenth Century 52 Chapter 4. The Other Arms Race 68 Chapter 5. (Re)Writing the Genetic Body-Text: Disability, Textuality, and the Human Genome Project 86 Part II: The Politics of Disability 96 Chapter 6. Construction of Deafness 98 Chapter 7. Abortion and Disability: Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World? 112 Chapter 8. Disability Rights and Selective Abortion 124 Chapter 9. Universal Design: The Work of Diability in an Age of Globalization 136 Part III: Stigma and Illness 148 Chapter 10. Selections from Stigma 150 Chapter 11. Stigma: An Enigma Demystified 160 Chapter 12. AIDS and Its Metaphors 172 Part IV: Theorizing Disability 178 Chapter 13. Reassigning Meaning 180 Chapter 14. Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body 192 Chapter 15. On the Government of Disability: Foucault, Power, and the Subject Impairment 204 Chapter 16. The Social Model of Disability 216 Chapter 17. Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor 224 Chapter 18. The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview 236 Part V: The Question of Identity 248 Chapter 19. The End of Identity Politics and the Beginning of Dismodernism: On Disability as an Unstable Category 250 Chapter 20. Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability 262 Chapter 21. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory 276 Chapter 22. Introducing White DIsability Studies: A Modest Proposal 294 Chapter 23. "When Black Women Start Going on Prozac...": The Politics of Race, Gender, and Emotional Distress in Meri Nani-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me 302 Chapter 24. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 320 Chapter 25. The Vulnerable Articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney 328 Chapter 26. Interlude 1 On (Almost) Passing 340 Chapter 27. Deaf People: A Different Center 350 Chapter 28. A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism 358 Part VI: Disability and Culture 372 Chapter 29. Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language and Literary Theory 374 Chapter 30. The Enfreakment of Photography 386 Chapter 31. Blindness and Art 398 Chapter 32. Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eye Witness Account 410 Chapter 33. Disability, Life Narrative, and Representation 418 Part VII: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry 422 Chapter 34. Helen and Frida 424 Chapter 35. Poems 430 Chapter 36. Poems 432 Chapter 37. Selections from The Cry of the Gull 436 Contributors 454 index 460 Back cover 472 Constructing normalcy : the bell curve, the novel, and the invention of the disabled body in the nineteenth century / Lennard J. Davis Deaf and dumb in ancient Greece / M. Lynn Rose "A silent exile on this earth" : the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton The other arms race / David Serlin (Re)writing the genetic body-text : disability, textuality, and the Human Genome Project / James C. Wilson Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane Abortion and disability : who should and who should not inhabit the world? / Ruth Hubbard Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton Universal design : the work of disability in an age of globalization / Michael Davidson Selections from Stigma / Erving Goffman Stigma : an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton Disability in theory : from social constructionism to the new realism of the body / Tobin Siebers On the government of disability : Foucault, power, and the subject of impairment / Shelley Tremain The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder The dimension of disability oppression : an overview / James I. Charleton The end of identity politics and the beginning of dismodernism : on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Introducing white disability studies : a modest proposal / Chris Bell "When Black women start going on Prozac" : the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow weep for me / Anna Mollow Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith Interlude 1 : On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggeman Deaf people : a different center / Carol Padden and Tom Humphries A mad fight : psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis Toward a poetics of vision, space, and the body : sign language and literary theory / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey Blindness and art / Nicholas Mirzoeff Blindness and visual culture : an eye witness account / Georgina Kleege Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser Helen and Frida / Anne Finger Poems / Cheryl Marie Wade Poems/ Kenny Fries Selections from The cry of the gull / Emmanuelle Laborit "The second edition of The Disability Studies Reader builds and improves upon the classic first edition, which has sold well over 6000 copies since 1999. As a field, disability studies burst onto the scene across the social sciences and humanities in the 1990s, and the first edition of the reader gathered the best work that had been written on the subject, including essays by famous authors such as Susan Sontag and Erving Goffman. The new edition is more global in its coverage and adds material on genetic testing, the human genome, queer studies, and issues in developing countries. The size of the audience has grown since the first edition's publication, and the second edition's new material will make it even more useful for courses on the subject. Courses on the subject have mushroomed in the past ten years, and can now be found across the social sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences."--Publisher description